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[ To use figures; practise arithmetic by means of numerical figures or notation. 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 1. 208. 2. In fox - hunting, to hunt carefully about in search of a lost trail: said of a dog. [New Eng.]-3. To run on three legs: said of a dog. [Kentucky. Of an organ-pipe, to sound independently of the action of the player, in consequence of some mechanical derangement in the organ. II. trans. [Cf. decipher .] 1. To reckon in figures; cast up; make out in detail, as or as if by ciphering: generally with up or out , and often used figuratively: as, to cipher or cipher up the cost of an undertaking; to cipher out the proper method of proceeding. [Chiefly colloq.] -2. To write in occult characters. The characters of gravity and wisdom ciphered in your aged face. Gough , Strange Discovery. ( Nares .) 3t. To designate or expre by a sign; characterize. Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive, To cipher me how fondly I did dote. IMG:content-0434.jpg:[graphic] Cionus (sī'ō-nus), n. [NL. (Clairville, 1798), κίων , a pillar.] A genus of rhynchophorous 4+. To decipher. beetles, of the family Curculio nid a or weevils. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 207. The illiterate, that know not how To cipher what is writ in learned books. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 811. cipherer